Monday, October 22, 2007
7:30 am Registration and continental breakfast
8:00 am Welcome: Suresh Santanam, Sc.D., Deputy Exec. Director,
Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environment and Energy Systems
8:10 am Opening Remarks: Edward A. Bogucz, Ph.D., Exec. Director, Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environment and Energy Systems
8:20 am Hon. James T. Walsh, U.S. House of Representatives (invited)
8:30 am Hon. Susan Roaf, Oxford City Council, Oxford, England
“Addressing Climate Change through Innovative Urban Master Planning – the Oxford Experience”
9:30 am Prof. Alan Plattus, Yale School of Architecture and Director of
Urban Design Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT
"3 Kinds of Sustainable Community Design"
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Edward Bogucz, Executive Director, Syracuse Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems, Near Westside Initiative Introduction and Overview
11:00 am Timothy Stenson, Associate Professor, Syracuse University School of Architecture, Building Performance and the Urban Landscape – An Architectural Perspective
11:20 am Hugh Henderson, Principal, CDH Energy, and Kevin Stack, Owner, Northeast Green Building Consulting, Inc., Design and Engineering Considerations for Building Sustainable Homes
11:40 am Larry Wetzel, Chairman, and Cheryl Gressani, Director of Development, Air Innovations, The Effectiveness of an Integrated Energy Recovery Ventilator on the Air Quality
in the Bedroom of Asthmatic Children, 5-14 years, and Their
Improved Respiration and Restfulness (Pilot Study Results)
12:00 pm Lunch (Reception Area) & Poster Viewing
1:00 pm Jerald Schnoor, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa
“The WATERS Network: Transforming Environmental Engineering and Hydrologic Science Research through an Integrated Environmental Observing Network”
1:45 pm John Ward, CSIRO Energy Technology, New Castle, Australia
"Outside the Box-HVAC management techniques that consider the world around them"
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm Karin Limburg, Associate Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, An Integrated Monitoring/Modeling Framework for Assessing Human-Nature Interactions in Urbanizing Watersheds: Onondaga and Wappinger Creeks
3:15 pm H. Ezzat Khalifa, Professor, Syracuse University, Overview of Indoor Environmental Quality Posters and Research at the Syracuse Center of Excellence
3:45 pm Anthony Catsamatides, The Open Atelier, Double Skin Glass Façades for High Performance Buildings
4:00 pm Peter Larson and David Ashley, Ashley McGraw Architects, How to Design Zero Non Renewable Energy Buildings
4:15 pm Toshiko Mori, Toshiko Mori Architects, New York, NY and Professor and Chair, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Sustainability Innovations in the Headquarters for the Syracuse Center of Excellence”
5:00 pm Reception & Poster Viewing
6:30pm Dinner Speaker: Hon. Paul Tonko, President and CEO, NYSERDA